What’s Next for These MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners?

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Between the World and Me” author Ta-Nehisi Coates, dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance and puppeteer Basil Twist were among the artists and writers chosen for this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants.” The honorees, who are chosen for showing “exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future,” receive $625,000 over the course of five years.

The grants have no strings attached, and the recipients often use the money to help pay for living expenses while focusing on their work. “Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to write some more poems,” the 72-year-old poet Ellen Bryant Voigt, who is among this year’s list of fellows, told The Wall Street Journal. “That would please me greatly.”

Here is a look at what some of the arts-focused MacArthur Geniuses are up to next.